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Originally Posted by senusenu
Sorry to post again immediately, but do many beardie morphs have iridophores in their skin? Many corn snake morphs do, and may be why some of them flash so brightly and others don't, even if flash "enhances" their color, like the anery corn in my profile pic.
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Not only do they have iridophores but bearded dragons can show significant color changes based on temperature and time of day. See for example (free access)
https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.ed...arded_Drag.pdf
Fan, M., D. Stuart-Fox, and V. Cadena. "Cyclic Colour Change in the Bearded Dragon Pogona vitticeps under Different Photoperiods." PLoS ONE 9.10 (2014).
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